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Hi everyone.
I am close to finishing my second cycle of the 5*5 and I have to say that I am really pleased with the results. In this last cycle I have put on about 8lbs of mass and I wasn't really even eating like I should have been (unemployed graduate looking for degree job and all that)!
My problem now is what to do next. I have looked at the DFHT posts but the routine doesn't really appeal to me. I am starting to get addicted to the strength side of this programme and would like to concentrate on increasing my core lifts further rather than mincing about with a load of isolation exercises. I am hoping to concentrate on getting stronger in these exercises until early next year when I will begin to refine things.
My main worry with regards to this is whether I will experience accommodation and stagnation from basing my routines around the same moves all the time. Would changing the rep ranges, but keeping the same exercises be okay prevent this?
I was thinking of something along the lines of training each lift twice weekly, using 5*5 or 3*5 one day and higher reps the other day, using all the basic lifts that are involved in the 5*5 and a couple of accessory exercises each week.
I would probably run this idea on a 3 week load, 1 week deload schedule.
Any ideas or comments would be most welcome,
Cheers,
Mdm
I am close to finishing my second cycle of the 5*5 and I have to say that I am really pleased with the results. In this last cycle I have put on about 8lbs of mass and I wasn't really even eating like I should have been (unemployed graduate looking for degree job and all that)!
My problem now is what to do next. I have looked at the DFHT posts but the routine doesn't really appeal to me. I am starting to get addicted to the strength side of this programme and would like to concentrate on increasing my core lifts further rather than mincing about with a load of isolation exercises. I am hoping to concentrate on getting stronger in these exercises until early next year when I will begin to refine things.
My main worry with regards to this is whether I will experience accommodation and stagnation from basing my routines around the same moves all the time. Would changing the rep ranges, but keeping the same exercises be okay prevent this?
I was thinking of something along the lines of training each lift twice weekly, using 5*5 or 3*5 one day and higher reps the other day, using all the basic lifts that are involved in the 5*5 and a couple of accessory exercises each week.
I would probably run this idea on a 3 week load, 1 week deload schedule.
Any ideas or comments would be most welcome,
Cheers,
Mdm
